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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s stripped of all personality and the street has no sidewalks. Yuk. [/quote]

The streets having no sidewalks is exactly part of the charm. These are wide streets and pedestrian friendly. [/quote]
Streets without sidewalks are not pedestrian friendly.[/quote]a

I would hate to live in a neighborhood without sidewalks. I don’t want to walk in the street. I think the whole point was to discourage walking in the first place, so you wouldn’t have riffraff walking about.

Idk, this kind of neighborhood is not for me. It’s pretty but nothing about it has changed except explicitly barring people based on race. It’s still intentionally homogeneous and very restrictive. I don’t deny that feels “easy” and “nice” but I’m not sure it really is. [/quote]

I thought that the lack of sidewalks in Bethesda was just Montgomery County being cheap, back when the neighborhoods were developed.  Trust me that people that live in Bethesda now definitely do complain about the lack of sidewalks.  Many of us bought houses here without noticing that there were no sidewalks in the neighborhood.  (Another example of cheapness when the area was developed -- above-ground power lines all throughout Bethesda.)

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It wasn’t cheapness at all, it was part of the marketing of a “country” environment. Private, everyone has a car, and random people don’t just walk by your house. [/quote]

OK.  I'll take your word for it that the people who developed Bethesda thought having no sidewalks would mean no random people walking past your house.  However, it does not make sense to me because people can always walk in the street.  This is what everyone does in Bethesda -- walks in the street because there are no sidewalks in most of Bethesda.

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Yeah but they’re far away down your long driveway and away from your house. I’m not saying it even makes sense, this is just the history. Today builders put in sidewalks and walking paths to appeal to people who want to walk strollers and dogs and stuff. It’s marketing. Like everything else, it often has a racial dimension. [/quote]

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